This week the BBC Proms continues to mark 100 years since the birth of Leonard Bernstein.
Marin Alsop conducts the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Bernstein’s Symphony No 2, The Age of Anxiety.
The inspiration for this work came from WH Auden’s poem of the same name, which Bernstein regarded as “one of the most shattering examples of pure virtuosity in the history of English poetry."
Budapest Festival Orchestra Photo: BBC
Tuesday afternoon, during Upbeat with David Morriss, dance to the Gypsy rhythms of Hungarian folk music in a concert from the Budapest Festival orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer. The orchestra will be joined on stage by a trio of the country’s folk musicians for works by Liszt, Brahms and Sarasate.
Star American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham Photo: Dario Acosta
American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham is due to visit New Zealand next year to perform with the NZSO. On Tuesday night in Music Alive she takes the stage with the Boston Symphony conducted by Andris Nelsons and a performance of Mahler’s ‘sunniest and most joyful’ Symphony No 3.
The Proms Schedule this week:
Saturday 15 September 2018
7.30 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2018: Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop
BERNSTEIN: Slava! (A Political Overture);
BERNSTEIN: Symphony No 2, The Age of Anxiety;
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5 in D minor Op 47
Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)
Monday 17 September 2018
7.30 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2018: Sir András Schiff plays 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' (Book 2)
András Schiff (piano)
BACH: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2
Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)
Tuesday 18 September 2018
12.00 Upbeat
Including: 1.00 BBC Proms 2018:
Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra (II)
Jozsef Lendvay Sr, Jozsef Lendvay Jr (violins), Jenö Lisztes (cimbalom), Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer
LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in C# minor;
BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor;
LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 3 in Bb;
SARASATE: Gypsy Airs Op 20;
BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No 11 in C minor;
BRAHMS: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68;
BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No 4 in F minor
Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)
7.30 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2018: Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), CBSO Chorus, CBSO Youth Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons
MAHLER: Symphony No 3 in D minor
Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)
Wednesday 19 September 2018
7.30 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2018: Berlin Philharmonic & Kirill Petrenko (II)
Berlin Philharmonic/Kirill Petrenko
STRAUSS: Don Juan Op 20;
STRAUSS: Death and Transfiguration;
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92
Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)
Friday 21 September 2018
7.30 Music Alive
BBC Proms2018: Miah Persson sings Strauss
Miah Persson (soprano), Adela Zaharia (soprano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko
ELGAR: In the South, Alassio Op 50;
IAIN BELL: Aurora;
STRAUSS: Das Rosenband; Ständchen; Wiegenlied; Zueignung;
BARTOK: Concerto for Orchestra
Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)
